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Most people have heard about the dog & cat food recall, and one of the most important questions is, "Which brands are affected?" In short, "most of them", including the fancy brands Iams, Eukanuba, and Science Diet. The problem is that a large manufacturer of dog & cat food - Menu Foods - managed to produce millions of pet food products with rat poison. Actually, what they found was aminopterin, a chemical can cause kidney failure in animals and humans (reference). In addition to the ample news coverage, Menu Foods has posted information on their website: www.menufoods.com/recall. After reading several stories that claimed different brands were affected, I decided to do a little digging. Here's what I found out... Who the hell is Menu Foods? They're a contract manufacturer of wet pet food products sold under dozens of different brand names across the country. Menu Foods manufactures food for 17 of the top 20 North American retailers (PetSmart, Wal-Mart, Safeway, etc.) (reference). Even though you think you're making choices as a consumer, you're basically being sold the same dog & cat food with different packaging and different prices. But inside, it's all the same stuff. Here is a full list of cat food brand names that are actually made by Menu Foods and part of the cat food recall (reference):
Here is the full list of dog food brand names that are actually made by Menu Foods and part of the dog food recall (reference):
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